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cerrado

cerrado noun: a type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.

cerrado: a type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay
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Noun (1)

cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural cerrados)

  1. (uncountable) A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
  2. (capitalized, countable, often) A region with this biome.
    • The biggest breakthrough on the horizon is coming on Latin America's vast cerrado, the seemingly endless grassy plains centered in Brazil. The cerrado covers more than 200 million hectares (500 million acres)—more than all the cultivated land that feeds India's more than 800 million people.1993 July 15, Richard Critchfield, “For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph”, in International Herald Tribune

Noun (2) capitalized: Cerrado

Cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural Cerrados)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of cerrado.
    • Nearly half (44%) of the Cerrado’s native vegetation, which includes scrubland, grasslands and forests, is already used for agriculture, the MapBiomas monitoring project calculates.2020 November 25, Dom Phillips, “The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • The Cerrado region now provides 54 percent of all soybeans harvested in Brazil, 28 percent of the country's corn, and 59 percent of its coffee.2023, Daniel R. Reichman, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 68

Forms of cerrado

pluralcerrados
alternative formCerrado
pluralCerrados

Origin of cerrado

From Portuguese cerrado (literally “shut, thick”), from cerrar (“to shut”).

Questions about cerrado

What does cerrado mean?
Cerrado means a type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
What part of speech is cerrado?
Cerrado is a noun.
What is the plural of cerrado?
The plural of cerrado is cerrados.

Words near cerrado in the dictionary

  1. Cerovlje
  2. ceroxyloid
  3. Cerqueira
  4. Cerqueiras
  5. Cerra
  6. cerrado
  7. cerrados
  8. Cerras
  9. Cerrato
  10. Cerratos
  11. cerrelation

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